just now
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1.0
- idiom
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ahora mismo
- Hey John, woke up just now and saw your Instagram story.
- is just now beginning
- has just now reached
- is just now starting
Dave said something just now that doesn't make sense.
- Dave said something just now that doesn't make sense.
- A very, very good example that was given just now was eye contact.
- Steve Scalise is like the guy who just now found out about Bridgerton.
- Moreover, those would seem to be words that are just now ringing bells.
- The the consumer staples are just now beginning their earnings recession.
- And this is an area that is just now being discussed.
- And, and that is just now starting.
- And the tomatoes are just now starting to set all of their fruit.
- I'm very much just now accepting my new phase of life.
- I think the thing you said quite frequently just now was creativity.
- I clicked on it just now for the first time research purposes.
Examples
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I just now got Max to sleep.
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The train arrived just now, so we should hurry to catch it.
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Everything I showed you just now is from that project.
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You mentioned just now Google has a chance.
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All I want to do just now is to clean up.
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America is only just now having to take a long hard look at itself.
Academic text (1994) -
And this is an area that is just now being discussed.
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Once again, it's noon and we're just now leaving the hotel to eat.
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A widespread understanding of their uses and limitations is just now becoming a reality.
Academic text (1993) -
I didn't even think about it until just now.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a very short time ago' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'just' (very recently) with 'now' (at the present moment). This temporal composition follows common cross‑linguistic patterns for recent time expressions, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase just now shows a small time that has just passed: just means 'only a moment' and now means the present moment. So just now means 'a very short time ago'.